secretary of state john kerry heads to kiev tuesday to show support for the young ukrainian government. people have shifted constantly wherethnic majority did have been vulnerable and open to transformation by powerful states. i mean, you could literally uproot people and plop them down somewhere else. tradition, homeland, nationalism means in 2014? ukraine 101 for all of us trying to understand this crisis in eastern europe on "inside story" before we look back, al jazeera america nick schifrin who joins us from crimea. nick, the state department has said that the russian military is in operational control. do you really have a feeling, a sense that that's the truth? >> absolutely, ray. you get the sense that the occupation by the russians is expandi expanding. to the basis i have been to over the last day or so are russian flags being raised, russian soldiers moving in sometimes completely unopposed. we saw one base this afternoon, what looks like coming in, set up 50 cal guns, and they were having lunch for a few hours, doug in right there down the blockug in right there down the bl